Although Sony hasn’t thus far been able to prove the power
of the PlayStation 3 through first generation games, Folding@home may be
offering the first glimpse at the new console’s much touted muscle.

According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics
sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a
huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows
with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs.

When it comes to pure performance though, the PS3’s Cell
Broadband Processor is still no match for ATI GPUs for protein
folding. The GPUs on Folding@home sit at 41 current TFLOPS, which come from
only 700 processors. If there were as many GPUs folding as there are PS3s on
the network, it can be extrapolated that GPUs could reach 876 TFLOPS.